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Futuremark 3DMark 06 / 11 and PCMark Vantage

We
continued testing and fired up Futuremark's system performance
benchmark, PCMark Vantage. This synthetic benchmark suite simulates a
range of real-world scenarios and workloads, stressing various subsystem
in the process. Everything you'd want to do with your PC --
watching HD movies, music compression, image editing, gaming, and so
forth -- is represented here, and most of the tests are multi-threaded,
making this a good indicator of all-around performance.

Futuremark PCMark Vantage

Simulated Application Performance

The
full Vantage score is below.

Here we see the X230T spring back with a
relatively robust score, in the top end of our test pack for this general purpose
and multimedia benchmark suite. It's actually pretty surprising to see the machine notch these scores.

3DMark06

Light Duty DX9 Synthetic Gaming

The Futuremark 3DMark06 CPU benchmark consists of tests that use the CPU
to render 3D scenes, rather than the GPU. It runs several threads
simultaneously and is designed to utilize multiple processor cores.

The third-generation of Core i5 processors are strong performers, as
shown here. The Core i5 here outpaced the second-generation Core i5 and its HD 3000 graphics engine across the board. The full score is below.

Futuremark 3DMark11

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

Futuremark 3DMark11

The
latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark11,
is specifically bound to Windows Vista and 7-based systems because it
uses the advanced visual technologies that are only available with
DirectX 11, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows.
3DMark11 isn't simply a port of 3DMark Vantage to DirectX 11, though.
With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has
incorporated four new graphics tests, a physics tests, and a new
combined test. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark11's
Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1080 with
4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering.

3DMark 11 is still a new benchmark, and
we're still building up our database of machines that we've ran through
this test. These were set on the "Performance" setting, just to
give you a vague idea of comparisons. It actually landed pretty much in the middle of the rival pack, which is fairly impressive given its integrated HD 4000 graphics, which was also able to edge out even a couple of older discrete solutions . The full score is below.